subdivision of Finno-Ugric languages

...Ugric and Finnic (sometimes called Volga-Finnic) groups, which may have separated as long ago as five millennia. Within these, three relatively closely related groups of languages are found: the Baltic-Finnic, the Permic, and the Ob-Ugric. The largest of these, the Baltic-Finnic group, is composed of Finnish, Estonian, Livonian, Votic, Ingrian, Karelian, and Veps. The Permic group consists...

...‘I see a book written by Tolstoy’ (literally, ‘I Tolstoy-written-book see-[present auxiliary]’). This order is common but optional in the languages of central Russia. Sami, Baltic-Finnic, and Hungarian now show the typical European subject–verb–object order: e.g., Finnish
isä osti talo-n ‘father bought a house(-genitive),’ Hungarian...

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